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bookfever.com List 133 SPECULATIVE FICTION A selection of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror with many signed books, including juveniles, proofs, pulps, digests and original anthologies. With over 10,000 signed or inscribed books in inventory, this is just a tiny sampling of what we have available. Credit cards accepted. Free Media Mail in USA. Please check our website for more options. 1.Adams, Richard. THE GIRL IN A SWING. London: Allen Lane, (1980.) Uncorrected proof. A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp. Very good in printed blue covers - an uncommon advance issue. 57321 $125.00 2.Aiken, Joan. THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. London: Jonathan Cape, (1962) First printing. The fourth novel by this award winning writer, a masterful dark fantasy novel for older children, one which "takes place in 1832 - in a period of English history that never happened. Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly opened Channel Tunnel." Dust jacket art and illustrations by Pat Marriott. 159 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. A very attractive copy of this scarce first edition. 65759 $750.00 page !1 of !12 [email protected] PO BOX 696 IONE CA 95640 209-274-6960 1.Aldrin, Buzz; illustrated by Wendell Minor. REACHING FOR THE MOON. New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) First printing. The first collaboration between astronaut Aldrin and prize winning illustrator Minor. This tells the story of how Buzz Aldrin became one of the first two humans to walk on the moon. Includes a chronology of flight and space exploration. SIGNED on the title page by both Aldrin and Minor. Large format, unpaginated. Fine in fine dust jacket. 50686 $125.00 3.Asimov, Isaac PEBBLE IN THE SKY. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First printing. Asimov's first published novel - the first of many! An accident in a research facility, sent Joseph Schwartz to a far future earth, still inhabited but the people of Earth are outcasts, because their tiny world is radioactive. Classic science fiction combining both time travel and post-apocalyptic themes. 223 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket .A short closed tear at base of the spine affecting both book and dj (dj has tape repair to interior), some other minor rubbing and wear most- ly to the folds of the dj and the ends of the spine) 65181 $600.00 4.Asimov, Isaac I, ROBOT. New York: Gnome Press, (1950) First print- ing. Asimov's second book, a collection of nine interlocked stories tracing the development of robots over 75 years. The final story is "The Evitable Conflict" in which the machines that made the world of the 21st century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future. Asimov's most influential book, this begins with his postulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics." Basis for the film of the same title. 253 pp. Very good in original red cloth with black lettering in a good dust jacket (some light foxing to the edges of the textblock and the endpapers, offsetting to the endpapers, small white spot near lower corner of front board, corners slightly bumped, spine of dust jacket sunned to gray as is common with this title, minor edgewear and rubbing) Despite the flaws, this is overall a clean, tight and straight copy. 65182 $1350.00 5.Asimov, Isaac THE END OF ETERNITY. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. First printing. A 'mirrors within mirrors' story of time travel, which explores the complexity and paradoxes inherent in it. Not as well known as 'I, Robot' but considered his best early novel. 191 pp. Dust jacket design by Mel Hunter. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (offsetting to the endpapers, which is common for this title, but otherwise a lovely copy) 65177 $650.00 6.Asimov, Isaac THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, n.d. (ca 1970, c.1951.) Vintage hardcover book club edition. Complete text of these three classic science fiction novels. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1980. Photograph of Asimov on back cover of dustjacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Rather hard to find signed by Asimov. 61645 $275.00 7.Asimov, Isaac and Robert Silverberg. NIGHTFALL. New York: Doubleday, (1990.) Limited, signed edition. A specially bound and boxed copy of this novel based on Asimov's classic 1941 short story. #113 of only 750 copies, numbered and SIGNED by both Asimov and Silverberg on the limita- tion page. 339 pp. Fine in a very near fine slipcase. 68617 $350.00 8.Asimov, Isaac. HAVE YOU SEEN THESE? Bos- ton: NESFA Press, (1974) Limited, signed edition. A slim collection of 8 science fiction short stories from the 1950s with Asimov's commentary on each of the stories. Issued to commemorate Asimov's guest of honor appearance at Boskone - the Boston science fiction convention. SIGNED by Asimov on title page and limited to 500 copies of which this is num- ber 170. 94 pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) 68616 $200.00 page !2 of !12 9. Baker, Kage. THE ANVIL OF THE WORLD. New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003) First printing. First fantasy novel by author of The Company time-traveling series - a journey across a landscape filled with bizarre creatures. SIGNED on title page. Dated in 2004. 350 pp. Dust jacket art by Thomas Kidd. Fine in fine dust jacket. 65705 $50.00 10.Baker, Kage. THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, (2009.) First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover. Wonderful first book for older children by this award winning fantasy novelist - it begins "Cleverness and bravery are ab- solutely necessary for good adventures." Illustrated with drawings by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. I suspect that this will become a classic. SIGNED on the title page by Kage Baker. 180 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers 45437 $24.50 11.Bear, Greg. THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publishers , (1983) Limited signed edition. Col- lects six short novels and stories, two of which were nominated for the Nebula. The first book by Bear to be printed in hardcover. This is one of a limited edition of 250 numbered signed copies - SIGNED on tipped in illustrated plate by Greg Bear, Vincent Di Fate dust jacket art) and Dennis Neal Smith (interior illustrations). In addi- tion, this copy has been INSCRIBED on the title page by Bear. 270 pp plus final illustration. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. 60653 $250.00 12.Bradbury, Ray. THE HALLOWEEN TREE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1972.) First printing. One of Bradbury's classic tales, illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. INSCRIBED by Bradbury with "Gibby!, Merry Christmas, 1972!" Bradbury also wrote and narrated the Emmy-award winning animated version of this story for television. 145 pp. Slightly oversized format. Dust jacket art by Joseph Mugnaini Very near fine in a like dustjacket (lower corner of back cover slightly bumped.) 49722 $525.00 13.Butler, Octavia E. PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998. First printing. Second novel in the Earth- seed series by this winner of the MacArthur "genius" award. Set in Cali- fornia in the near future. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new unread copy) Signing schedule from bookstore laid in. 47296 $175.00 14.Butler, Octavia E. THE FLEDGLING. New York: Seven Stories Press, (2005.) First printing. The final novel by this award-winning writer, not only a winner of the Nebula and Hugo awards, but the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur "genius" award. A story of a child vampire, the only survivor of a vicious attack on her community. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author - this book was published just months before her tragically unexpected death in Feb 2006 so signed or inscribed copies are uncommon. Butler talked about how writing this book, her first novel in 7 years, broke her 'writer's block' and while this novel stands alone, it is clear that she was planning one or more sequels. 316 pp Fine in a fine dustjacket. 69535 $100.00 15.Carroll, Jonathan VOICE OF OUR SHADOW. New York: The Viking Press, (1983) First printing. His rather hard to find second nov- el, the story of a young man living in Vienna, Austria (as Carroll him- self does), striving to make his way as a writer and to come to terms with his past. Pat Conroy calls the "most frightening novel I've read since Dracula. I thought it was a love story and it was. Then I thought it was a ghost story, and it was, sort of . it is a stunning, magical, wonderful novel." SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some light toning to the pages, a very short closed tear with associated creasing to the upper edge of the rear cover of the dj.).